A famous living Korean teacher, not so known outside his homeland.Website with teachings and poems: Anguk Zen Center

DON'T SEEK NO-MIND

You will feel as if the heavy load were off your shouldersand cast off your skinall of a sudden like a thunderbolt from the blue sky.Who could express this joy of dharmayou feel through the whole body?

However,you should neither indulge in the feelingnor be dragged about by arising thoughts.

Don't wander in search of something in vain.Time will be ripe enough of itselffor everything to reveal itself as it isif you pass time like this.

On acquaintanceyou are no-mind itself from the beginning.Don't seek no-mind.

1Myriad dharmas are only mind. Mind is unobtainable. What is there to seek?2If the Buddha-Nature is seen,there will be no seeing of a nature in any thing.3Neither cultivation nor seated meditation —this is the pure Chan of Tathagata.4With sudden enlightenment to Tathagata Chan,the six paramitas and myriad meansare complete within that essence.

you cant say what dhamma/dharma is, it is beyond words, however it can be seen when it is seen within and without. this seeing within and without, there is no seeing nor nothing to see and yet it is still seen. the seeing within and without are the same. since there is actually no mind to see, nor person to see anything, nor anything to be seen, we speak of no mind (wu hsin).

the great 6th Patriarch of Zen, Hui Neing/Wei Lang introduced the name no mind, this was in accordance with his experience of things. this table is no mind, the computer is no mind, no mind is typing. no mind is true nature/dhamma.

when you look within you find not a thing. this ordinary daily feeling our own nature. after seeing own nature you become familiar with the nature of external objects, true nature and from there you recognise no mind.

no mind reveals itself after nature is seen. they are one. the purpose of the path is to see that there is no mind and this no mind is what we call Emptiness, Universal Mind and Noble truth.

best wishes, Tom.

in any matters of importance. dont rely on me. i may not know what i am talking about. take what i say as mere speculation. i am not ordained. nor do i have a formal training. i do believe though that if i am wrong on any point. there are those on this site who i hope will quickly point out my mistakes.